We are proud to present the privacy curtain cubicle snap system. Our cubicle snap system’s is the ultimate infection control whose attributes include functionality, time and money saving and ease of installation. So do they really spread disease? Here’s what research shows….
September 23, 2011 By Ryan Jaslow
(CBS) Privacy may not be the only thing hospital curtains give patients. A new study suggests privacy curtains may be a source of infectious bacteria, including potentially deadly staph.
For the study – presented at an infectious disease conference in Chicago – scientists swabbed 43 hospital curtains twice a week for three weeks. They analyzed 180 samples, and found germs on 119. Twenty-six percent of curtains tested positive for the potentially deadly antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria known as MRSA, and 44 percent tested positive for a form of Enterococcus bacteria – some of which were antibiotic resistant. Researchers also placed 13 new curtains in a hospital for the study. Within a week, 12 were contaminated.
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